Publications e-mail

marketing procedure
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Visiting Research Fellow
Research Support Unit
Centre for Research Services
Research Management & Innovation Complex
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

aleebrahim@um.edu.my
@aleebrahim
www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009
http://scholar.google.com/citations
13th July 2016

All of my presentations are available online at:

https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
Link to this presentation: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3479069.v1

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3rd SERIES OF INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP ON:

Strategies to Enhance Research

Visibility, Impact & Citations
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
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Research Support Unit
Centre for Research Services
Research Management & Innovation Complex
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009
http://scholar.google.com/citations
Read more:
1. Ale Ebrahim, N., Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi Tanha, F., Gholizadeh, H., Motahar, S. M., & Ordi, A. (2013). Effective
Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93
2. Ale Ebrahim, Nader. "Optimize Your Article for Search Engine." University of Malaya Research Bulletin 2.1 (2014): 38-39.

Abstract
Abstract: Your research findings and publications have to
reach thousands of your peers and colleagues by sending
an email. If you have recently published a study that would
be of interest to others in your field, market it through email.
E-mail marketing allow the researchers to increase the
research impact and citations for their publications. This
workshop will provide various techniques to increase the
visibility and enhance the impact of researchers output by
employing the publications E-mail marketing procedure.
Keywords: H-index, Improve citations, Research tools,
Bibliometrics, E-mail marketing, Research Visibility
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How do we improve citations?

Attempt to publish in top journals
Dont take the comfortable option of
submitting articles first to middle ranking
journals
Be prepared to face rejection
Achieve maximum publicity for your
research
Ensure that the correct address is used.
Source: The Role of Citations in Warwicks Strategy and Improving Them
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Research Tools Mind Map

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Research Tools Mind Map -> (4) Enhancing visibility and impact
-> NetWorking -> Email Extractor

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The old world of access to knowledge

Source: Michaela Torkar, PhD, Editorial Director, BioMed Central, Publishing your research in BioMed Central journals

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The new world of access to knowledge

Source: Michaela Torkar, PhD, Editorial Director, BioMed Central, Publishing your research in BioMed Central journals

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Advantages of E-Mail

E-Mail

Source: http://www.lsoft.com/pr/pres/PRSA_2003.ppt
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Building Contact Lists

Even if you only have few e-mail addresses,
you need to add those to your database.
You may acquire e-mail from following
resources:
Manually from face-to-face meeting
Manually from cited & relevant papers
Manually from your contact list
Importing on mass from a CSV or TAB
delimited file
Email outreach (Scopus and WoS search)
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WoS E-mail search results

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SCOPUS E-mail search results

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Online E-mail Extractor

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Keeping up-to-date
What is an alert service?
Many journal databases and book publishers offer free alert
services. These are an effective means of keeping track of the
latest research.
Alert services come in different forms. The most common
include:
a search alert. This is a saved search which alerts you when a
book or article that matches your search terms is published.
a TOC (Table of Contents) alert. Such an alert notifies you when
a new issue of a journal is published, and provides you with the
issue's table of contents.
a citation alert. This advises you when a new article cites a
particular work.
Most alert services are email-based. An increasing number are
now offered as an RSS feed. If you are just beginning, you might
like to try email alerts first. These are generally easier to create.
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It is not vanity but a necessity to

set up Google alerts
(http://www.google.com/alerts) so
you can automatically keep an eye
on your developing presence and
follow your online
footprint and shadow.

Source: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/5/5d/Online_Visibility_Guidelines.pdf

Keeping up-to-date
Create a Google Alert
Enter the topic you wish to monitor.
Search terms:
Type:
How often:
Email length:
Your email:
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From: Google Scholar Alerts <scholaralerts-noreply@google.com>

Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Subject: Scholar Alert - Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim - new citations
To: Nader.Ale.UM@gmail.com

Scholar Alert: New citations to articles in Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim's profile
[PDF] Co-sourcing in software development offshoring: A case study of risk perception and alleviation
BR Schlichter, JS Persson - International Research Workshop on IT Project
ABSTRACT Software development projects are increasingly geographical distributed with
offshoring, which introduce complex risks that can lead to project failure. Co-sourcing is a
highly integrative and cohesive approach, seen successful, to software development ...
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Keeping up-to-date

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Provide a link

Source: https://www.semrush.com/blog/how-to-create-a-simple-email-marketing-process/
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Email signature, allowing recipients to

quickly find your research
Use a link to your latest publications in your email
signature, which allowing recipients to quickly find your
research (without running the risk of fumbling to copy a
long string of a URL that may not paste properly).
For example:
Best regards,
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
==============================
Visiting Research Fellow
Research Support Unit
Centre for Research Services, Level 2,
Research Management & Innovation Complex
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009
Access my papers on SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=1379350
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Adopted from: http://ssrnblog.com/2012/08/20/did-you-know/

Dear Dr Ale Ebrahim,

Greetings from Australia.
I read with great interest your recent article titled: Does a Long Reference List
Guarantee More Citations? Analysis of Malaysian Highly Cited and Review Papers that
was published in the International Journal of Management Science and Business
Administration. Im glad to see this kind of research being undertaken.
Given our mutual interests, I thought you might like to know about some of my own work
in this field and so I have attached some PDF reprints for your private study.
I have also published an article in The Conversation, on these themes.
https://theconversation.com/explainer-how-and-why-is-research-assessed-36895

Best regards,
Derek R. Smith
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Newcastle, Ourimbah AUSTRALIA
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Derek_Smith8
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/derek-smith/17/a83/202
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Use mail merge to send personalized email

messages to your email address list
With mail merge, each email message is a separate mailing where
each recipient is the sole recipient of each message. This is unlike
broadcasting an email message to group of recipients or hiding
recipients on the blind carbon copy (bcc) line of the message.
You can also use email merge to send personalized email to
recipients in your address list. Each message has the same kind of
information, yet the content of each message is unique. For
example, in email to your customers, each message can be
personalized to address each customer by name. The unique
information in each message comes from entries in a data file.
Notes
You must have a MAPI-compatible email program installed. The
capabilities of Outlook MAPI (Messaging Application Program Interface)
make it possible for Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Outlook
to share information when sending the merged email.
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Keep in touch

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Invite colleagues

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FIND FRIENDS & COLLEAGUES

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Monitor Results
Once per month, look at reporting (metrics)
to see which e-mails are more effective and
have a higher rate of opening as well as
click-through. It's important to know how
your list is responding to the e-mails that you
send. If you aren't getting a good clickthrough response, the problem is either the
quality of your message or the topic.
Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/207662
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My recent publications

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RESEARCH SUPPORT UNIT (RSU)

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH SERVICES
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT & INNOVATION COMPLEX (IPPP)
UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA

Questions?
E-mail: aleebrahim@um.edu.my
Twitter: @aleebrahim
www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009
http://scholar.google.com/citations
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
=====================================
Research Support Unit
Centre for Research Services
Research Management & Innovation Complex
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009
http://scholar.google.com/citations
2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim

References
1. Ale Ebrahim, N. (2016). Academic social networking (ResearchGate & Academia) and the research impact. Retrieved from Research Support
Unit, Centre for Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya:
https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3464156.v1
2. Michaela Torkar, PhD, Editorial Director, BioMed Central, Publishing your research in BioMed Central journals
3. Konkiel, S. (2014). 30-Day Impact Challenge: the ultimate guide to raising the profile of your research: Impactstory.
4. Ale Ebrahim, N. (2016). Create and maintain an up-to-date ResearcherID profile. Retrieved from Research Support Unit, Centre for Research
Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2009928.v5
5. Ale Ebrahim, N. (2016). Make your data discoverable on a data repository Retrieved from Research Support Unit, Centre for Research
Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3420997.v1
6. Ale Ebrahim, N. (2016). Enhance Research Visibility by Tracking Citations. Retrieved from Research Support Unit, Centre for Research
Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3407128.v1
7. Ale Ebrahim, N. (2016). Promote your research work on LinkedIn. Retrieved from Research Support Unit, Centre for Research Services,
Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3394906.v1
8. Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Introduction to the Research Tools Mind Map (June 14, 2013). Research World, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1-3,. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280007
9. Akhavan, P., Ale Ebrahim, N., Fetrati, M. A., & Pezeshkan, A. (2016). Major trends in knowledge management research: a bibliometric study.
Scientometrics 1-16. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-1938-x
10. Shakiba, M., Ale Ebrahim, N., Danaee, M., Bakhtiyari, K., & Sundararajan, E. (2016). A Comprehensive Comparison of Educational Growth
within Four Different Developing Countries between 1990 and 2012. Revista de Gesto e Secretariado, 6(3), 152-174.
doi:10.7769/gesec.v6i3.486
11. Martn-Martn, A., Orduna-Malea, E., Aylln, J. M., & Lpez-Czar, E. D. (2016). The counting house, measuring those who count: Presence of
Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics in Google Scholar Citations, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Mendeley,
& Twitter. EC3 Reseach Group: Evaluacin de la Ciencia y de la Comunicacin Cientfica Universidad de Granada and Universidad
Politcnica de Valencia (Spain), In Progress,. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.4814.4402
12. Mller, A. M., Ansari, P., Ale Ebrahim, N., & Khoo, S. (2015). Physical Activity and Aging Research: A Bibliometric Analysis. Journal Of Aging
And Physical Activity In Press. doi:10.1123/japa.2015-0188
13. Maghami, M., Navabi Asl, S., Rezadad, M. i., Ale Ebrahim, N., & Gomes, C. (2015). Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Solar hydrogen
Generation Literature From 2001 to 2014. Scientometrics 105(2), 759-771. : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1730-3

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